Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

The holes in my jeans ans the holes in my boots make me whole!

There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions.”“When has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?” - Riker

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.